School: Stabannon, Castlebellingham (roll number 5457)
- Location:
- Stabannan, Co. Louth
- Teacher: E. Mac Oisín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0671, Page 073
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- (continued from previous page)by some person as, if not, the dead person will have to walk this earth unclothed, I heard of a woman who died and whose clothes were all worn except the bonnet which could not be found. The dead woman was often seen walking afterwards without her bonnet.
I was at a wake in the bog of Ardee about 60 years ago. Clay pipes and tobacco were given out to the people at the wake. There was a plate left on a table mixed with salt and ashes, I dont know what this plate was for.
When the coffin has been lowered into the grave the people standing round, or some of them, each throw a handful of Clay into the grave.
- Informant
- Bridget Byrne
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 71
- Address
- Castlebellingham, Co. Louth
